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Guinea

Guineai/ˈɡɪni/, officially the Republic of Guinea (French:République de Guinée), is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea (French:Guinée française), the modern country is sometimes referred to as Guinea-Conakry in order to distinguish it from other parts of the wider region of the same name, such as Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea. Guinea has a population of 10.5 million and an area of 245,860 square kilometres (94,927sqmi).

Guinea is a predominantly Islamic country, with Muslims representing 85 percent of the population. Guinea's people belong to twenty-four ethnic groups. French, the official language of Guinea, is the main language of communication in schools, in government administration, in the media, and among the country's security forces, but more than twenty-four indigenous languages are also spoken.

Guinea (region)

Etymology

The etymology of "Guinea" is uncertain. The English term Guinea comes directly from the Portuguese word Guiné, which emerged in the mid-15th century to refer to the lands inhabited by the Guineus, a generic term for the black African peoples south of the Senegal River (as opposed to the 'tawny' ZenagaBerbers, north of it, whom they called Azenegues or Moors). The term "Guinea" is extensively used in the 1453 chronicle of Gomes Eanes de Zurara.

King John II of Portugal took up the title of Senhor da Guiné (Lord of Guinea) from 1483. It is believed the Portuguese borrowed Guineus from the Berber term Ghinawen (sometimes Arabized as Guinauha or Genewah) meaning "the burnt people" (analogous to the Classical GreekAithiops, "of the burned face"). The Berber terms "aginaw" or "Akal n-Iguinawen" mean "black" or "land of the blacks."

Guinea (coin)

The guinea is a coin of approximately one quarter ounce of gold that was minted in the Kingdom of England and later in the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom between 1663 and 1814. It was the first English machine-struck gold coin, originally worth one pound sterling, equal to twenty shillings, but rises in the price of gold relative to silver caused the value of the guinea to increase, at times to as high as thirty shillings. From 1717 to 1816, its value was officially fixed at twenty-one shillings. Then, Great Britain adopted the gold standard and guinea became a colloquial or specialised term.

The name came from the Guinea region in West Africa, where much of the gold used to make the coins originated. Although no longer circulated, the term guinea survives in some circles, notably horse racing, and in the sale of rams to mean an amount of one pound and one shilling (21 shillings) or one pound and five pence in decimalised currency. The name also forms the basis for the Arabic word for the Egyptian poundالجنيهel-Genēh / el-Geni, as a sum of 100 qirsh (one pound) was worth approximately 21 shillings at the end of the 19th century.

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Guinea

Guineai/ˈɡɪni/, officially the Republic of Guinea (French:République de Guinée), is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea (French:Guinée française), the modern country is sometimes referred to as Guinea-Conakry in order to distinguish it from other parts of the wider region of the same name, such as Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea. Guinea has a population of 10.5 million and an area of 245,860 square kilometres (94,927sqmi).

Guinea is a predominantly Islamic country, with Muslims representing 85 percent of the population. Guinea's people belong to twenty-four ethnic groups. French, the official language of Guinea, is the main language of communication in schools, in government administration, in the media, and among the country's security forces, but more than twenty-four indigenous languages are also spoken.

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The USSGreenBay pulled into Papua New Guinea’s capital city Tuesday ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference that will gather world leaders for trade discussions Saturday and Sunday ... “The rate of crime in Papua New Guinea is among the highest in the world,” the website said....

Casey Golomski.SAACC now owns 267 African artifacts, donated by an archaeology professor's estate, with about 50 currently on display in an exhibit titled, "Guinea To GreatBay. Afro-Atlantic Lives, Cultures and History."Golomski, an assistant professor of anthropology ... ....

YSA is a nonprofit arts program that provides homeless and low-income BayArea youth with arts and employment training ... in Kaloum, a slum in Guinea ... Through design collaboration, Komara hopes to help create tiny houses that are “both part Guinea and part here, the Bay Area.”....

Two lines are drawn in the sand, showing water from the Waccamaw River slowly receding in the roadway ...Josh Bell jbell@thesunnews.com ... Code Red ... Cox, whose house flooded along CollinsRoad, was staying with his friend at the corner of Collins and SweetBay Road. The home had not yet flooded and was housing two dogs, chickens, guineas birds and horses....

Instead of graduating college, he and his fellow Guardsmen earned a trip to New Guinea... Yankton’s 147th Field Artillery ended up defending the Australia coastline by keeping Japanese enemy forces at bay in New Guinea ... at bay and facilitating their successful retreat from the enemy....

Sugito, who worked in a tofu factory and was known only by his first name, according to the Daily Mail, had been collecting grass for his cattle or possibly vegetables Friday when he wandered into a licensed sanctuary that breeds endangered saltwater and New Guinea crocodiles....

AROUND 17 years ago, I had predicted in a column that this century would be dominated by the mass movement of people ... On the other side of the world, Australia is keeping boatloads of Sri Lankan Tamils, Rohingyas, Afghans and PakistaniHazaras at bay by locking them up in offshore facilities in New Guinea that resemble concentration camps ... ....

AROUND 17 years ago, I had predicted in a column that this century would be dominated by the mass movement of people ... Also read ... On the other side of the world, Australia is keeping boatloads of Sri Lankan Tamils, Rohingyas, Afghans and PakistaniHazaras at bay by locking them up in offshore facilities in New Guinea that resemble concentration camps....